Season 4 – From July 1st to 8th, 2018

Improvisation Summer Academy, Oboe & English Horn

Jazz & Ancient Music

Oboman

Improvisation
Jazz & World Music
Oboe, English Horn,
Oboe d’amore

Jean-Luc « Oboman » Fillon belongs to the rare musicians whose artistic journey is punctuated of original and diverse projects (11 albums in leader). Multi-instrumental composer, with a strong classical background (ex-soloist of the European Symphonic Orchestra), he takes one of the most boundary-breaking and convincing artistic path of our musical stage, with a careful blend of discretion and determination. His credo : to build a musical project anchored in Jazz, World music and improvisation around the specific sound of oboe, oboe d’amore and English horn.
Invited as a solist by the National Orchestra of Ile-de-France and by the Regional Orchestra of Normandy for his project “Oboa Nomade”, he tours in many countries (France, United States, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Austria, Portugal, Argentina…), and is the artistic director of « Sons 9 » festival in Paris.

MASTER-CLASSES
Certified from the Paris national conservatoire, Oboman teaches improvisation at the national academies of Cergy-Pontoise and Mantes in the Yvelines district. His musical experience, his mastery of various instruments (Oboe, English Horn, Bass clarinet, Electric bass, Double bass) and his knowledges in composing and conducting allow him to successfully lead master classes with ease. Jean-Luc Fillon particularly knows the expectations of students with a classical background and who wish to try out improvisation ; he gives many master-classes : CNSM of Lyon, HEM of Genève, HEM of Lausanne, HEM of Lugano, Universities of New-York, Austin, Birmingham, Porto, Buenos Aires and numerous national academies in France.

“A great moment of pedagogy, based on an experience and a personal development full of humility and research on broad diverse and rich musical outlooks”
Jean-Louis Capezzali and Jérôme Guichard.

William Dongois

Improvisation, Ancient music
Cornetto
Professor at the HEM Genève

After studying the trumpet (national conservatoires of Reims and Paris) and writting (national conservatoire of Reims), William Dongois teaches this instrument and has as well an intense musical activity. He initiate to the cornetto with Jean-Pierre Canihac, then with Bruce Dickey at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He has played and recorded for various bands. He leads Le Concert Brisé ensemble. “Diapason” awarded “La barca d’amore” recording (Carpe Diem, 1998, reissued Accent, 2009) with “five diapasons”, acknowledging “an outstanding performer” and “a precious guide on the way of an assumed period style”. Craig Zeichner (« Early Music America », 2011) writes about the live recording of the sonatas of Pandolfi-Mealli (Carpe Diem, 2010): “Dongois is stunning and plays with a fluid and precise timbre utterly irresistible, a timbre that can be clear and bright, but as well smooth like Miles’”. Two of the latest recordings of Le Concert Brisé, dedicated to Bertali (ACC 24260) and Scheidemann (ACC 24302) received a “golden diapason” (2014 and 2016). He collaborates with the instrument manufacturer Henri Gohin. William Dongois teaches improvisation during Master-Classes in various European institutions of higher education in music. He teaches the cornetto at the Haute École de Musique (HEM) of Genève.

Clément Prioul

Piano jazz
Harmony jazz
Piano accompanying

He graduated in 2012, with a gold medal in Jazz piano and a Jazz Master degree at the Cergy-Pontoise national conservatoire where he studied with Jean-Luc Fillon and Laurent Colombani. He then obtained a scholarship at the Centre Des Musiques Didier Lockwood, where he studied with Benoît Sourisse and André Charlier, among others. He graduated in 2015 with a Jazz DNSPM diploma.
He plays as pianist and organist in various styles : Rhythm' N Blues, Soul, Jazz and also Rock with various projects like Mohamed Najem & Friends, Rumpus ("Dawn" released in 2016), The Kathy Jazz Project, The Jazz Cookers Workshop ("Loose Togetherness" released in 2015, collaborations with Ricky Ford and Razul Siddik).
He also works as arranger for Jean-Luc Fillon and for the angolian singer Lulendo in his project African Market, for Harmony orchestra, rhythm section and choir.
He has already performed in different countries like Cameroon, Gabon, United Kingdom, Portugal and Italy.

Philippe Hekimian

Orgue Jaz & Grove
Training
Organ & keyboards accompanying

Born in a family of great musicians, he learned the organ as autodidacte. He was influenced, among others, by Ray Manzarek (The Doors), John Lord (Deep Purple), Keith Emerson (The Nice, Emerson, Lake and Palmer), Gregg Rolie (Santana), Jimmy Smith et Eddy Louiss (album « Dinasty » with Stan Getz, Rene Thomas et Bernard Lubat) ; but also by the pianists Fats Wallers, Oscar Peterson et Errol Garner. With a strong background as an organist, he participated in many projects in musicals, and played with the French bluesman Bill Deraime, the singer Nicole Croisille and many artists of the French variety. Philippe is passionate about the synthesizer and especially the « vintage » instruments like the electric piano Fender Rhodes and the organ Hammond. These mythical instruments have shaped the music of today. Phillippe will offer you groovy accompaniments in the spirit of great jazz organists.